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Bangladesh envoy taken for a trip in identify of Bollywood singer tournament

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KOLKATA:  The Bangladesh deputy prime commissioner in Kolkata used to be cheated of Rs 8 lakh through fraudsters who promised a musical soiree of Bollywood singer Shreya Ghoshal in Dhaka. The incident got here to mild when artist Chirantan Bandopadhyay, additionally duped of Rs 20 lakh through the similar staff of fraudsters, moved the Calcutta Top Courtroom. The artist went to  court docket after the police didn’t make any headway.

The plot to dupe the 2 events opened up in January, a police officer mentioned. ‘’The suspects created a fictitious organisation the use of the identify of a real corporate. They defrauded the deputy prime fee’s workplace of Rs 8 lakh as advance. The cash used to be despatched to the  account of 1 Krishna Sharma, the director of the fictional corporate. The deputy prime fee gained acknowledgement message from a faux electronic mail ID and WhatsApp collection of Shreya Ghoshal,’’ mentioned the officer.

The message knowledgeable that the singer would succeed in Bangladesh an afternoon earlier than the scheduled tournament for which two rooms in a five-star resort have been asked. ‘’The deputy prime commissioner’s workplace attempted to touch the fictional organisation earlier than the development to a get ultimate affirmation however their e-mails and messages went unanswered,” police mentioned.